Meatboy,
I always fight with engines killed. The problem with these defenders is that you need to attack them quite quickly to prevent them from jumping to New York. But you also need to get some distance before starting the pursuit - otherwise you will not be at full combat speed when you hit them. So it is a matter of timing.

Sherlog,
Trust me - they do use those missiles. In the beginning at least. But they seem to stop when they have fired 2 or 3 times.

BTW they carry more missiles than a a player is allowed to. After firing 9, they still have 51 left, so they apparently brought 60. A player can only carry 50 of one type even with several launchers.

if you take out the three defenders you get a nomad prototype i think,
however i only managed it once and then someone else shot me and
i couldn't get it again.

Gnavpot , the Defenders fire a missile salvo or two initially but that's all. After that they are ridiculously easy to kill because they have so few guns (most of their weapon mount points are occupied by missile launchers).

I had expected a barrage of missiles and so I thrusted about 1000m away from the Defenders after turning them red with my Lavablades, in order to let the initial salvo of missiles fizzle out without having to use flares. The Defenders had 51 missiles left (each!) even after they took out the Rhino, and so I wanted to save as many flares as possible for the dogfighting. Of course, I didn't need any.

They have 60 moonstalker maales.

The3defenders drop laser turret Rowlett's Revenge (a special "easter egg" type of turret you can get in Mission 3).

jUST A QUESTION HAS ANYONE TRYED TO SAVE THE RHINO ?

The Defenders wasted me as well...they have 3 Moonstalker Missiles, and they launch them three times in one salvo, that means on Defender: 6 missiles, 3 Defenders: 18 Moonstalkers up you arse.


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Remember folks, it's ME-Thane!

I saved the rhino by press the print sceen button to stop the cut-sence.

Hehehe, that fight looks beautiful...

All the missiles flying there...

I took them out on my first try with a Bloodhound with 3 Justice 3's and a Barrager 1 Turret...

And still I had 5 bots and 3 bats left!

The Rowlett's Revenge show as a nomad weapon

If you see a sabre blowing up everying,it's me.

SIJ

Just passed that section where the Rhino goes bang, is it savable? I'm currently in a Defender with no missiles just lvl 3 laser weaponry

2 x Lavablade
2 x Drail
LVL III Laser

"If you will not be turned, then you will be destroyed"

no, the rhino can not be saved. The best you could possibly do is try to kill the Defenders after they've killed the rhino.

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<< I didn't have to cheat to beat the 3 defenders with a Rhino. After a good night's sleep I took them out in the first try. >>


Very sporting of them to hang around and wait for you to wake up.

Huh. I bet something with my game is messed up.

You see, I told the Defenders to stay there and that I'll sleep a bit, but then that I woke up, they were gone.

Bastards.